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judfilm

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Re: ProAudio repository for Arch users

Awesome work, Shinlun. Very much appreciated! Do you take requests for PKBUILDs?

funkmuscle

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Re: ProAudio repository for Arch users

yes shinlun, do you take requests?
Ubuntu Studio has some great apps. We could use them on Arch.

take a look:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/PackageList

also, do you have a RT kernel?

shinlun, I do agree that we have it better. I think Arch is better for an Audio/Video Workstation than any other distro.
I've tried most of them like JackLab, Ubuntu-Studio, and a few others.
JackLab has some nice apps also.

Last edited by funkmuscle (2007-06-01 05:50:10)

clarence

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From: fremantle.au

Registered: 2005-10-12

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Re: ProAudio repository for Arch users

shinlun thanks very much

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Cotton

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From: Cornwall, UK

Registered: 2004-09-17

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Re: ProAudio repository for Arch users

I still experience dropouts, anyone got any tweak tips?

Maybe useful links from here:  http://tapas.affenbande.org/wordpress/?page_id=3

specifically: http://tapas.affenbande.org/wordpress/?page_id=40

btartsa

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Registered: 2004-07-26

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Re: ProAudio repository for Arch users

No progress towards a working rt kernel?

timbosa

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Registered: 2007-02-25

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Re: ProAudio repository for Arch users

I've got a basic realtime kernel together

You can download a PKGBUILD from http://arch.timbosa.com/kernel26rt.tar.gz

Last edited by timbosa (2007-06-01 09:20:55)

judfilm

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Re: ProAudio repository for Arch users

Installed and it booted fine. Any diagnostics tools to test this out? Yet to try with any audio apps.

shinlun

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From: Taipei, Taiwan

Registered: 2007-05-16

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Re: ProAudio repository for Arch users

Hey you guys are welcome!!! I would take requests if they are within my capability and I get time to study them. But personally I don't use KDE or GNOME daily(maybe someday will) so I don't make packages for the apps that are tied to KDE or GNOME too much. Anyway here is a community, and anyone who are interested would help

shinlun

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Re: ProAudio repository for Arch users

Hello funkmuscle:
I heard of ubuntu-studio and I think the collection of packages on AUR are much more solid and stronger than their ubuntustudio-audio and ubuntustudio-plugins; we have more which they don't have. I just uploaded some tidy-up packages to AUR and you could check them out.

As to RT kernel, I didn't use it before.

btartsa

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Re: ProAudio repository for Arch users

RT kernel seems to work great...no benchmarks yet though. Timbosa, could you post the PKGBUILD for it? I would like to see how you did it...and maybe tweak a few things for my machine.

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timbosa

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Registered: 2007-02-25

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Re: ProAudio repository for Arch users

Hi guys, glad that the kernel installed for you, now I'll hope that it actually works for you.

btartsa - I've put the kernel up on AUR at the moment under kernel26rt. Or you can download the PKGBUILD and other files from http://arch.timbosa.com/kernel26rt.tar.gz

judfilm - Have a look at http://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/RT_ … nchmarking if you want to do some tests.

I haven't done any latency benchmarks yet but I noticed that if I setup qjackctl at 1ms, on the rt kernel xruns were roughly half that of the default Arch kernel under the same conditions. I'll try to do some over the weekend.

funkmuscle

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Re: ProAudio repository for Arch users

rt kernel rocks. no xrun at very low lateny settings in qjackctl. thanx Timbosa. we need to make Arch the Linux standard for Audio/Video

funkmuscle

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Re: ProAudio repository for Arch users

freqtweak, gAlan, Traverso, and Breakage. Can you build these shinlun?

funkmuscle

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Re: ProAudio repository for Arch users

shinlun, you rock. I requested some apps and wow, 2 already in AUR.
Traverso uses qt4. can I run that without any damage and if yes, how do I do so?

shinlun

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Re: ProAudio repository for Arch users

funkmuscle:

you can use pacman to get qt4 binary from community and install. It will be installed to a different directory other than qt3's. After the install your system is still using qt3 as default qt and you don't have to config anything(but you should note that there is a tool called qt-config in qt4 package, which could check your current qt config). Now makepkg and install traverso. You still don't have to config anything for qt4 at this point, just type "traverso" and have fun.(I am not really a qt expert. If I am wrong, please correct me.)

If you think that qt4 causes a lot of strange trouble for you, just use pacman -R to remove, it's that easy.(that is why I always using pacman to track my private install/uninstall)

shinlun

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From: Taipei, Taiwan

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Re: ProAudio repository for Arch users

I built freqtweak long time ago, but it seems that for the time being the project doesn't keep up with others and have been out of maintain for a while. I managed to tweak the configure and makefiles but failed to get a runnable result. Maybe I shall do a regression to wxgtk for it to work??

For breakage, you can just unzip and run it. But it seems that it doesn't like Arch's jre 6-3??(breakage requires Java 1.5) Maybe you shall do a regression to your java package for it to run.

Anyway I just uploaded djplay to AUR. Have fun

funkmuscle

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Re: ProAudio repository for Arch users

shinlun, galan was looking for fst so it failed to build. I have fst installed.
traverso installed but it will not launch.
qt4 installed but it said that it's disabled by default. Does anyone know if qt4 needs any configuration.

funkmuscle

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Re: ProAudio repository for Arch users

hey, anyone tried this app: Qtractor?
http://qtractor.sourceforge.net/qtractor-index.html

Last edited by funkmuscle (2007-06-05 11:40:04)

judfilm

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Re: ProAudio repository for Arch users

Thanks again, Shinlun, for your great PKGBUILDs. I have a request for:

WAVE Utilities

WAVE Utilities is a set of three programs for dealing with WAVE format audio files. Some software is unable to parse complex WAVE files containing such things as playlists and padding. SimplifyWave converts complex files into files that such programs can read by stripping everything other than the data chunk. RepairWave inserts the required data chunk id and size information into ill-formed files in which the audio data directly follows the header. InfoWave extracts information from a RIFF/WAV or RIFX/WAV file and reports on the contents of the file.

clarence

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From: fremantle.au

Registered: 2005-10-12

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Re: ProAudio repository for Arch users

Thanks again, Shinlun, for your great PKGBUILDs. I have a request for:

WAVE Utilities

WAVE Utilities is a set of three programs for dealing with WAVE format audio files. Some software is unable to parse complex WAVE files containing such things as playlists and padding. SimplifyWave converts complex files into files that such programs can read by stripping everything other than the data chunk. RepairWave inserts the required data chunk id and size information into ill-formed files in which the audio data directly follows the header. InfoWave extracts information from a RIFF/WAV or RIFX/WAV file and reports on the contents of the file.

Done, http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … 1&ID=11440

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shinlun

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From: Taipei, Taiwan

Registered: 2007-05-16

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Re: ProAudio repository for Arch users

funkmuscle:

For galan, I checked the configure script and found that it would search for "libfst", which doesn't have anything to do with the current version of "fst" on AUR. Unfortunately, you can't disable this default search with any flags. I think most of modern app won't depend on libfst anymore, so you could do the following step safely:
1. search under /usr/lib/pkgconfig, /usr/share/pkgconfig, or /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig for a file called "libfst.pc" (or use "find" to search /usr)
2. "mv libfst.pc libfst.pc.bak" for the time being
3. now makepkg to see if it compiles
4. do the rollback "mv libfst.pc.bak libfst.pc"
Actually hacking the configure script to workaround this is not that difficult, but it's easier to do the above just to see whether it compiles or not.

For traverso, judging from the votes on AUR, I think some might have it worked on their systems. I can run it without an active qt4 profile(both on xfce4 and twm, not tried on KDE). If you want to use an active qt4 profile, do the following:
1. "qt-config qt4"
2. logout and login again
3. now type "qt-config --current". If it outputs "qt4", you are using an active qt4 profile now.

Apart from that, I can't give much advice on this, because I am not good at qt environment. Maybe some others can help???

shinlun

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Re: ProAudio repository for Arch users

judfilm:

the program you mentioned is very interesting, but clarence can't wait anymore
Thanks for the info.

shinlun

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From: Taipei, Taiwan

Registered: 2007-05-16

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Re: ProAudio repository for Arch users

I heard of qtractor last month and had a PKGBUILD for it. Its source tarball is mainly for preview purpose so I didn't put it on AUR. Now here you are

funkmuscle

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Re: ProAudio repository for Arch users

restarted X and traverso works. was using KDE but logged in under ICEWM and it works.

thanx a million shinlun. You saved us a bunch of work here. we have enough to start a Multi-media Arch distro.

just a thought

funkmuscle

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Re: ProAudio repository for Arch users

the snapshot of Hydrogen(0.9.4). has anyone tried it?